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Wishpond has launched the Wishpond Agency Program, bringing together all of the tools agencies need for social, mobile, online and local marketing for their clients.Now Agencies can leverage Wishpond, which is already being usedby more than 15,000 Retailers and Brands, to help their clients with a broad array of online marketing activities including running ads, sweepstakes andcontests, creating Social Stores, engaging fans via social networks like Pinterest, and analyzing prospect engagement and demographic patterns. Read the rest of this entry »

This holiday season, Mega Bloks and Barbie are transforming construction play for girls with the launch of Mega Bloks Barbie™ – the first-ever Barbie™ building collection designed specifically for girls. Debuting at retail on December 12^th, Mega Bloks Barbie invites girls to build, design and decorate their own Barbie world with compatible playsets and mini-fashion figures. From a Luxury Mansion to a Fashion Boutique and even Barbie doll’s signature pink convertible car, Mega Bloks Barbie is making over one of the fastest growing toy categories, one pink block at a time. Read the rest of this entry »

Anticipating the corporate need to provide both standard business views and user-defined workflows, mobile Business Intelligence app cafe moba releases its mobile information unification and analytics platform in native iOS and Windows RT version. Available today in the App Store and Windows Store, cafe moba is a mobile unification platform that connects, analyzes, and visualizes real-time business data, web-based information, and social media streams. Designed for flexibility, cafe moba will be configured by IT and personalized by the user to suit their specific needs and preferences. Read the rest of this entry »

Nominations opened today for the 4th Annual Canadian Videogame Awards, to be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre on April 20th, 2013. This year’s show, sponsored by Future Shop, will once again celebrate the best and brightest of the Canadian videogame industry. Developers, publishers and industry leaders from across Canada will gather in beautiful Vancouver to recognize the outstanding achievements of 2012.      Read the rest of this entry »

Slant Six Games Inc. has officially released its brand new original IP mobile title. The Bowling Dead™ is a free-to-play, zombie bowling game, universally available for iOS devices. In the post apocolyptic setting of The Bowling Dead, the world is overrun by undead hordes of zombies, all governments have fallen and there are few survivors, but one such survivor is Jimmy Skidmore, a rebellious loner who has discovered that weaponized bowling balls and beer are the only effective defence against the zombies. In The Bowling Dead, one man stands in the way of the complete annihilation of the human race. One man and his…balls. Read the rest of this entry »

Toon Boom Animation Inc., a 2012 and 2005 Primetime Emmy^® Engineering Award recipient, announced today that The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, will grant the Toon Boom Pipeline the Ub Iwerks Award at the upcoming 40th Annual Annie Awards™. As part of the juried awards category, the Ub Iwerks Award recognizes the technical advancements that make a significant impact on the art or industry of animation. Read the rest of this entry »

When the first Brazil-Canada 3.0 Conference opens today in the Brazilian northeastern city of João Pessoa, it will be the culmination of a dream shared by two world leaders from two continents. In August 2011, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, pledged their commitment to increased collaboration and enhanced business opportunities between their two countries. Now, inspired by the format of the CDMN Canada 3.0 digital media forum which Brazilian representatives attended last spring, Brazil-Canada 3.0 is under way today and tomorrow in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil to move that commitment forward. Read the rest of this entry »

Following Startup Canada’s launch of its Startup Blueprints, which outlined key findings and action items from its 2012 National Tour, the non-profit, volunteer-run organization will unveil a major crowdfunding campaign during a press conference at the Waterloo Accelerator Centre tomorrow, in support of one of the Blueprints’ key initiatives. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s Interdimensional Games Inc (iDGi) has revealed a brand new Intellectual Property,”Consortium” – that has been years in the making. A Kickstarter Campaign has been started, offering a great deal of detailed information about the project. For the past 3 years, through their Alternate Reality Game (A.R.G.), iDGi has been maintaining and developing the abilities of “iDGi-1,” an artificial satellite put into orbit in 2009 which allows for the exploration of an alternate universe. Read the rest of this entry »

This review was originally published by our review partners Canadian Online Gamers. It is reposted here with permission, and was written by MrBigCat and The Outcast. Far Cry 3 is developed by Ubisoft Montreal and is scheduled for release on December 4 2012. The game is rated M for Mature by the ESRB and will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Canadian Online Gamers gave Far Cry 3 a score of 90. Read the rest of this entry »